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Aug 24, 2016 · VMware’s industry-leading software for HCI, Virtual SAN (VSAN), is built from the ground up for vSphere virtual machines. VSAN delivers enterprise-class features, scale and performance with the ability to run on any standard x86 server on the broadest set of deployment options.
VMware vSAN is a software-defined, enterprise storage solution that supports hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) systems. vSAN is fully integrated with VMware vSphere, as a distributed layer of software within the ESXi hypervisor.
Mar 7, 2023 · VMware vSAN is a distributed layer of software that runs natively as a part of the ESXi hypervisor. vSAN aggregates local or direct-attached capacity devices of a host cluster and creates a single storage pool shared across all hosts in the vSAN cluster.
- Introduction
- VSphere 7 Update 1
- Vsan 7 Update 1
- Are Cloud Foundation (VCF) 4.1
In todays big webcastVMware made some interesting announcements for all VMware vSphere, vSAN and VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) enthusiasts. I’ve been working with most new additions for a couple of weeks now and today the next major update in the vSphere portfolio was publicly announced with VMware vSphere 7 Update 1, VMware vSAN 7 Update 1 and VCF...
vSphere with Tanzu
Not only did VMware add a couple of nice features to the product with this version, they also included “VMware vSphere with Tanzu”! If you are familiar with my previous post on vSphere 7 you might be aware that if you wanted to use the VMware Tanzuproducts you could only do this on a VCF 4.0 environment. Which meant you would also had to use a boatload of other products and NSX-T. In this release VMware removed the “restriction” and made sure that we can use the Tanzu products on a regular br...
vSphere Lifecycle Manager (vLCM) enhancements
In vSphere 7 VMware changed how we can now update our vSphere clusters with the release of vSphere Lifecycle Manager (vLCM). vSphere Update Manager will be replaced by this in the end, but for now we can still use the legacy VUM services if we would like to. This new service allows us to use a desired state image across the cluster, use RESTful API’s to update the clusters and install Vendor specific Add-Ons and firmware right from the vSphere Client. If you want to know more on vLCM I sugges...
vSphere Scalability
With every new release we also get a new list of supported maximums in a vSphere environment. This is not different in this release, VMware increased the following maximums: These new maximums do require VM Hardware version 18. Next to this the 96 hosts in a cluster limit is not for vSAN enabled clusters, only for non-vSAN clusters. The vSAN cluster limit is still 64 nodes.
Since VMware released vSAN 7 we’ve gained so many new features like integration with Lifecycle Management (vLCM), vSAN Native File Services, even better Cloud Native Storage, new vSAN metrics, awareness of vSphere Replication in conjunction with vSAN and NVMe hotplug support. In this release we’ve gained even more. And like I said before at the sta...
The next installment of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) version 4.1 ofcourse brings us a new BOM with the following supported versions: 1. SDDC Manager 4.1 which includes a building VMware Imaging Appliance (VIA) into Cloud Builder 2. vSphere 7.0 U1 with vCenter and ESXi 7.0 U1 3. vSAN 7.0 U1 4. NSX-T 3.0.2 5. Workspace One Access 3.3.2 6. The vReali...
A virtual storage area network (VSAN) is a logical partition in a physical storage area network ( SAN ). VSANs enable traffic to be isolated within specific portions of a SAN, so if a problem occurs in one logical partition, it can be handled with minimal disruption to the rest of the network.
Aug 29, 2020 · When you are upgrading a vSAN enabled vSphere Cluster you should always be aware of the fact that vSAN has it’s own place on the VMware Compatibility Matrix! Make sure to stick to it and read the Matrix carefully.
Jan 1, 2024 · This command allows users to execute tasks against the objects present on the object based vSAN datastore. This command is also the most dangerous in that case because once you delete something, or alter it incorrectly, you can potentially corrupt your object (and therefor VM).
